{"id":46219,"date":"2022-07-23T07:48:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T07:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kent-state-university-students-visit-rwanda-national-police\/"},"modified":"2022-07-23T08:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T08:15:54","slug":"kent-state-university-students-visit-rwanda-national-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kent-state-university-students-visit-rwanda-national-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent State University students visit Rwanda National Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The students are in Rwanda as part of their \u2018Rwanda post-genocide against the Tutsi\u2019 course offered by the Ohio-based university. Their visit to RNP was mainly to understand the force\u2019s role in peace building and national development.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) in charge of Administration and Personnel, Jeanne Chantal Ujeneza, who received the students, reiterated the RNP\u2019s proactive approach in working with the citizens as well as other governance and security institutions in addressing human security issues that would otherwise cause insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>The students sought to know more about the RNP\u2019s community policing philosophy, the link between peace-making and policing, Umuganda (communal work) in relation to peace and development, and how the force deals with crime such as gender-based violence, human trafficking and drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRwanda National Police serves in the interest of the citizens\u2026 for everyone to be safe, involved and reassured. We are a people-centred security organ and the citizens are empowered to be the first responders in identifying and addressing localized security issues, through community night patrols, and sharing of information on anything that can affect their safety and wellbeing,\u201d DIGP Ujeneza said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that as a proactive approach to prevent crime, RNP devises and implements various community security and development activities, including awareness against crime, constructing modern houses for the disadvantaged families as well as giving them medical insurance, solar energy, clean water, organic gardens, construction and rehabilitation of roads connecting villages, among many others.<\/p>\n<p>These proactive engagements, DIGP Ujeneza added, build trust and confidence, instills a sense of nationalism, improves security in neighborhoods, provides a safe environment for all and where people feel safe when they see security organs.<\/p>\n<p>While responding to the issue of youth and drugs, DIGP Ujeneza said that development also goes with protecting the young people against one of the major hindrance to youth development. This, she said, involves sensitization against drug abuse, operations to break drug trafficking chains and rehabilitation of addicts, among others.  <\/p>\n<p>Pacifique Niyonzima, a Rwandan student pursuing PhD in \u2018Interprofessional Leadership\u2019 at Kent State University, said that the \u2018Rwanda post-genocide against the Tutsi\u2019 course was designed to teach students about the progress that Rwanda has made in different sectors such as peace, education, health and security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have come to Rwanda National Police to learn how it implements these programmes in line with peace-building and development\u2026 then they go back and teach their communities,\u201d said Niyonzima.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Schmidt, a student in secondary school education also at Kent State University, said: \u201cI will be teaching high school students social studies; history, economics, civil society issues. Coming here, I expected to find a country attempting to rebuild itself after the tragedy, but what I found is a country completely succeeding in unifying its people and rebuilding itself to be a place where everyone feels safe, secure and happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cThey have really built a society here that seems to treasure every citizen and where people express themselves in their own way. I have, therefore, learned strategies that I can use in my classroom to help teach students unity and peace-building skills through debates and consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43403 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/akn.jpg\" alt=\"RNP officers with students and lecturers from Kent State University in USA. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43404 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/14-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43405 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/11-65.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43406 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/12-38.jpg\" alt=\"Their visit to RNP was mainly to understand the force\u2019s role in peace building and national development.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43407 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/13-34.jpg\" alt=\"Students following a lecture delivered by RNP. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Students and lecturers from Kent State University in USA, on Friday, July 22, visited Rwanda National Police (RNP) at the General Headquarters as part of their study tour.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46219"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46219"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}